19 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2016/2061(INI)
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Takes the view that gender equality, by increasing social and economic well-being, benefits not only women but society as a whole;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Deplores how the EU gender pension gap is at 39 % which is more than double the gender pay gap of 16 %, reflecting the lifelong consequences and impacts of the inequality in the labour market on women's rights;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that gender equality must be ensured in all areas, including in access to quality employment, career progression and reconciliation of work and private life; Acknowledges that the implementation and promotion of the principle of equal pay for the same work and for work of equal value is crucial to reducing pay and pension gaps and to eliminating the risk of poverty; calls on the EU and the Member States, in cooperation with the social partners and gender equality organisations, to set out and implement policies to close the gender pay gap; calls on the Member States to carry out wage-mapping on a regular basis as a complement to these efforts;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Deplores that in many Member States there is no entitlement to available, affordable and quality child care and long-term care and many women are forced to reduce their working time to care for children, persons with disabilities and other dependents; stresses the need to ensure women and men are equal earners and equal carers by eliminating gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work and to promote equal sharing of responsibilities, costs and care; points in this respect to the need for ensuring universal access to quality (social) services of general interest and for specific proposals making for better reconciliation of work and private life; calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase their support for childcare and to introduce targets similar to the Barcelona targets on the availability of quality long-term care services;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that all people have the right to a decent publicuniversally accessible and solidarity-based statutory pension, and recalls that the Union recognises the entitlement to social security benefits and social services which provide protection in the event of old age, disability or dependency on long-term care; reminds in this context that the right of older persons to live in dignity and independently is enshrined in Article 25 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Insists that first pillar schemes have to remain at the centre of our pension systems and recalls that these must be promoted and enabled while ensuring that their resources are not drained by supplementary schemes to grant universal coverage and adequate pensions; points out that the gender gap for pensions is the smallest in the first pillar and that these schemes have proven to be the most inclusive, the most fair in re-distribution and even the most cost- efficient way of combating old-age poverty;1a _________________ 1a European Commission, The Gender Gap in Pensions in the EU, 2013
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for all pension schemes, including private and occupational ones, to be based on unisex actuarial criteria, and that female life expectancy is not raised as a pretext for discrimination;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Urges the Member States to replace household unit models by the individualisation of taxation and social security rights to ensure individual rights and to counter dependency status through a partner or through the state;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a decent public minimum pension not related to previous working life; stresses the importance of shifting towards individual, rather than family-related, pension entitlements ensuring a life in dignity and inclusion in society when conditions for statutory retirement pension are not met; stresses the importance of shifting towards individual, rather than derived, pension entitlements whilst phasing out systems based on the male bread-winner model; highlights, however, the important role played by survivor's pensions in safeguarding many older women from poverty;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the current and future freezes and cuts in pensions in some Member States isare and will be hitting people with low incomes, part-time jobs or interrupted careers (most of them women) hardest;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. AsksCalls on the Member States to increase minimum wages as anand social partners to increase wages, in particular through collective bargaining, as important tools for narrowing pension gaps; calls for a focus on the need to address the gender pay gap and job segregation in low paid sectors, raising wages in sectors where women are in the majority;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that a decent retirement income is essential in order to fight poverty among the elderly; stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of several factors including the gender pay gap, the pension gap, care responsibilities and related breaks, as well as insufficient support and taxation systems affecting households headed by single mothers; calls on the Member States to ensure that part-time workers, workers facing job discontinuity, assisting spouses and workers with career gaps or with periods where fewer hours were worked have the right to access a decent pension scheme without any form of discrimination;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. CReiterates its calls on the Member States to introduce or reinforce pension credits for career interruptions resulting from caring, whatever the family and/or marital status'care credits' through labour and social security legislation for both women and men as equivalent periods for building up pension rights in order to protect those taking a break from employment to provide informal and unpaid care to a dependant or a family member, whatever the family and/or marital status; encourages the Member States to exchange best practices in this area;
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Alerts to the risks to gender equality represented by the shifts from social security pensions to personal funded pensions since personal pensions are based on individual contributions and do not compensate for times spent caring for children and other dependent relatives or periods of unemployment, sick leave or disability; calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore ways to maintain and reinforce gender equality in reformed pension systems;
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that both men and women have the chance to reach full contribution periods and rights to a full pension by fighting gender discrimination in employment, improving their ability to combine work with family responsibilities, improving investments in child and eldercare, establishing sound regulations on health and safety at the workplace that include gendered occupational risks as well as psycho-social risks, investing into public employment services that are able to guide women of all ages in their search for employment, introducing flexible rules for transitioning from work to retirement and pension credits for care periods;
Amendment 199 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Member States to provide for legal instruments in order to ensure the share of pension rights in case of divorce or separation;
Amendment 200 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to study the effects of different systems providing survivor's pensions in the light of high rates of divorce and non-married couples on poverty and social exclusion of older women;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to follow up on the Council conclusions of 18 June 2015 on equal income opportunities for women and men: Closing the gender gap in pensions, adopted under the Latvian presidency, including the call for the inclusion of care periods in the calculation of social protection rights, investment in accessible and affordable care systems, the developments of indicators on the gender pension gap and to promote further research on its causes;
Amendment 230 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Member States to put in place respectful and poverty-preventing rules for workers whose health does not allow to work until the legal retirement age; stresses that raising the retirement age without taking measures to include older workers in the labour market with quality jobs is not acceptable; considers that raising employment rates through quality jobs could help to considerably reduce the future increase of this ratio and, thereby, to alleviate the financial burden of ageing;